Holy crap. When I sent out emails to a handful of gaming sites this morning, I knew in the back of my mind that getting featured on Reddit and larger sites was possible, but I obviously didn't expect it. Our top priority right now is starting up more game servers to reduce the login spam that's causing all of the lag - NEStalgia usually plays very smoothly.

Anyway, welcome to the game! Please feel free to ask questions, as many of our veteran beta testers are on hand to help new players. You'll also find a ton of information on the NEStalgia Wiki.

If you have any problems with the game, you can comment on this post or leave us a comment on NEStalgia's BYOND hub page. You are also welcome to join the Silk Games Forums to make feature/gameplay suggestions for future releases.

There will be a lot more to say in the coming days, but for now just please be understanding of the fact that we're a group of hobbyist developers doing our best to accommodate a massive wave of players that we never anticipated. I'm definitely not complaining, but bear with us :)

With any luck we'll have enough servers up to meet the demand by the weekend. Thanks for playing!

I am glad to see good games like NEStalgia to get a mass amount of players. Your promotion has obviously paid off just seeing the sheer amount of players logged on to NEStalgia right now. Not only that, but BYOND now has more members that will either stick with NEStalgia or explore a tiny bit and find some other games of choice. Perhaps even start to develop!

that's what you get for making a good game that appeals to a niche audience hungry for new content - lots of interest. it's way too laggy for me to see playing seriously at the moment, but I can see the potential - if it's nice and smooth normally (and it's so laggy now that's actually almost hard to believe) then I'll definitely swing back once the issue is fixed.

Thanks Matt! Hopefully we'll be through the worst of the lag by the weekend.

Airjoe wrote:

We of the Reddit clan would really like to host our own server. What are your thoughts on user run servers?

I'd allow it for you. If you're going to start it up, you'll probably want to do it soon. I'll have to give myself the ability to appoint admins next update, however. In the meantime I can tweak the server settings etc. to whatever you'd like.

Well then, you've certainly impressed me! Great work on getting in all these extra users!

[Edit] I forgot to congratulate you. Congratulations! Hopefully your success will have a wave effect, and all these new users will branch out into the other featured and popular games.

This is the first step into breathing new life into BYOND by flushing it with hordes of new players. Considering the demographic of the game, I'm betting a lot of those users will be mature people who hopefully become interested in writing their own games with BYOND.

I hope that one day when I wake up and see how many players online NEStalgia has, it will show me 4digits number.

PS. There's another glitch, this time in the script (not CSS) on the http://www.silkgames.com/nestalgia/live.php
There is shown incorrect number of players playing the Reddit server (151 Players Online) and each user is listened few times.